Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

by Robert Kingdon and Robert M. Kingdon

Book Overview

The changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching in John Calvin's Geneva, in large part owing to Calvin himself. This text makes two major contributions to the understanding of this particular period. The first is to the history of divorce, whilst the second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva - an institution designed to control in all its variety the behaviour of the entire population...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005201
• ISBN13: 9780674005204
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"